Australian business advisory KordaMentha has officially launched a new office in Canberra, with the public sector-focused practice to be led by a number of recent Big Four partnership recruits. While KordaMentha has worked closely with governments and public sector institutions across Australia over its more than two-decade history, the consultancy firm said the Canberra launch marked a significant milestone.
OCM has promoted seven members to the next level across its offices in Australia. Established in 2009, OCM (O’Connor Marsden & Associates) is one of Australia’s larger homegrown management consultancy firms, with around 150 staff across six offices.
Deloitte has acquired a minority stake in PwC’s First Nations consulting business, PwC’s Indigenous Consulting, with the company now rebranded as Yamagigu Consulting. The deal has been anticipated for a while – in March reports surfaced that PwC was working on the sale of its minority stake in PwC’s Indigenous Consulting, as part of its broader tax scandal-induced strategy to pull out of the public sector.
Baringa has strengthened its Energy & Resources practice in Australia with the hire of Andrew Dillon. Appointed a Director in the Policy & Regulatory practice of Baringa, Andrew Dillon will leverage his experience across industry and government to help the management consulting firm expand its offerings in the energy & resources and government landscape.
ASX-listed professional services firm Atturra has bolstered its advisory business with the acquisition of Exent, a management consulting firm with around 50 staff. Headquartered in Brisbane, with further offices in Melbourne and Sydney, Exent is an award-winning consulting firm specialised in strategy execution and the implementation of business change.
Accounting and advisory firm William Buck has made eleven mid-year partnership appointments, capping a defining year in which the firm’s overall tally rose by 28 to 145 across Australia. The record cohort included six internal promotions, four professionals who become partner in Canberra as part of William Buck’s recent Link Capital merger, and PwC partnership recruit James Blackburn in Adelaide.
International communications and public affairs agency Sandpiper has refreshed the leadership team for its Australia and New Zealand business. Appointed to the newly created role of Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand is Francesca Boase, who has been with the firm since the first quarter of this year and will continue in her dual role of Global Managing Director for Professional Services.
Digital transformation consultancy CI&T has strengthened its Australian data and cloud teams with Paulo Felipe Barbosa and Koustabha Kale. Appointed as Data Lead, Paulo Felipe Barbosa brings a wealth of experience in data engineering, analytics, and data governance to CI&T, a Brazil-headquartered digital transformation company with two offices in Australia.
Sydney-based technology platform Viostream has been acquired by Banyan Software, a globally operating enterprise software business. SCD Advisory provided sell-side M&A guidance to Viostream’s shareholders.
Cor Cordis has installed a new practice leader for its Forensics & Investigations practice: Dennis Lee. The new partner and leader of the business investigations offering brings nearly two decades of experience in forensic accounting and corporate advisory roles to Cor Cordis.
Argon & Co has promoted three members to its partner team in Australia and New Zealand. Appointed a partner, Jeffrey Triantafilo has been with Argon & Co since the late 2022 purchase of Fuzzy LogX. He specialises in warehousing, intralogistics and international logistics, with a focus on projects in the pharmaceutical, retail and mining sectors.
Accounting and consulting firm RSM has made nine new partnership promotions in Australia, alongside the fresh national executive appointments of James Komninos and Jessica Olivier. Chair of the firm’s Asia Pacific region, company veteran Komninos continues his stint on the local board, while Sydney-based R&D tax services partner Olivier joins the national executive after arriving from PwC in 2016.
Nous Group has beefed up its capabilities in the healthcare sector with the acquisition of Health Policy Analysis, a boutique Sydney-based consultancy with around a dozen staff. Expected to close at the start of next month, the acquisition will see Nous Group deepen its expertise in topics such as healthcare policy, evaluation, planning, modelling, analytics, classification, costing and pricing, as well as data and information management.
Home-grown turnaround & restructuring consultancy McGrathNicol is celebrating its 20th anniversary, having over that time grown to a headcount of 55 partners and 350-plus staff. The firm was established by former KPMG insolvency partners Colin Nicol and Tony McGrath together with a number of other senior colleagues, when they were forced to split from the Big Four firm ahead of new US legislation.
The Australian Department of Defence has selected Arc Professional Services as a partner for its Resilient Decision Highway (RDH) project. The Resilient Decision Highway (RDH) project, initiated in 2019 by the Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG), has as its goal to develop a technology platform that enhances collaborative problem-solving, situational awareness, and operational decision-making within the Australian Defence Force and its Five Eyes partners.
In a contextually key appointment, public sector consultancy Scyne Advisory has brought in former Auditing and Assurance Standards Board technical director Matthew Zappulla as client risk & quality lead.
New research from ExtraHop surveyed 1,200 IT and security leaders from around the world to understand their plans for securing and governing the use of generative AI tools inside their organizations. Their responses are concerning, writes Simon Howe, Area Vice President for Australia and New Zealand at ExtraHop.
Professional services firm PwC has taken its latest step towards normalising operations by promoting its first cohort of new partners in Australia since the government tax leak scandal. The firm altogether added 22 new partners across its recently reorganised advisory, assurance and tax & legal lines, although the list also included current chief executive Kevin Burrowes, who was flown in to help mop up the mess.
Accounting and consulting network Moore Australia has made a number of mid-year promotions, headlined by Matt Thomson’s recruitment as CEO of Queensland and Northern New South Wales. National chairman David Tomasi will also hand over Western Australia managing partner duties to James Tng, while Steven Moore has been recruited as chief operating officer for South Australia and the Northern Territory.
With the support of Accenture, the Australian Banking Association (ABA) has released its latest strategic review of the country’s consumer data right regime, revealing an underwhelming level of uptake.
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